Cartoon and satire as source: Jack Nicolle, physical culture, and cartoons in 1920s Britain

Alec S. Hurley; Conor Heffernan

doi:10.1080/17460263.2022.2140188

Cartoon and satire as source: Jack Nicolle, physical culture, and cartoons in 1920s Britain

Alec S. Hurley^*, Conor Heffernan

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On 8 April 1920, the first sports editorial cartoon by teenager Jack Nicolle appeared in Health & Strength magazine. The series of illustrations in the world’s oldest physical culture periodical captured the absurdity of ‘circus lifts’ performed at a recent W.A. Pullum lifting exhibition. The piece ignited a torrid eleven-month run of insightful, humorous, and bitingly satirical commentary often directed towards leaders of the British strength community.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	442-469
Number of pages	28
Journal	Sport in History
Volume	43
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2022.2140188
Publication status	Published - 30 Nov 2022
Externally published	Yes

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